After putting them through the process in the gene lab, you have new walking weapons that you could only dream of producing in the past. Gone are the weak human beings that become casualties of war. As you research alien autopsies, you can unlock special abilities such as health regeneration, improved eyesight and others that help your recruits in battle. You still fight using patriotism as your secret weapon, but now you have the opportunity to give everybody superpowers. It’s the next logical step in the XCOM franchise. It assuages that fear of watching your soldiers die by letting you turn them into super soldiers through genetic modifications and cybernetic implants. It’s why you feel a sense of relief in XCOM: Enemy Within. Then they died because you made a careless choice. These were soldiers that you had led through countless missions and whose true potential you helped discover. You had to save the Earth from an alien invasion in tense battles that often had high body counts. It was watching people you had grown attached to die. Oh, and Commander? You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.The hardest part of XCOM: Enemy Unknown wasn’t the strategic combat or the money management. While it will eventually go up in price to £25, XCom Complete on GOG is currently 80% discounted down to a significantly more wallet-friendly £5.09, so if you've spent the past six years avoiding it, now would be a good time to pick it up. It looks like Phoenix Point is on the way to split the difference between the two styles next year, too. Unlike the original Gollop Brothers's X-Com from way back in 1994 (note the hyphen, and it's also discounted on GOG), Firaxis's modern reboot boiled down an intensely complex granular game of tactics down to something roughly resembling a board game with relatively easy to follow rules and an emphasis on doing everything you can to stack those vital attack rolls in your favour. Well, the aliens are here, so it's up to you to manage bases, deploy squads to the front lines and try not to feel too bad when your bad micromanagement gets Ensign McRedshirt's face vaporised by alien plasma fire. If you're new to PC gaming as a whole or have somehow avoided reading about strategy games for the past six years, welcome! XCom: Enemy Unknown makes you the sole commander of the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit, an international last line of defence against a potential alien invasion. Rather than divide it up, GOG are only selling the Complete edition of the game, including two minor bits of DLC and the rather more significant Enemy Within expansion. Today, Firaxis's alien-bothering turn-based squad tactics revival, XCom: Enemy Unknown has launched on GOG after over half a decade of the PC version being Steam-exclusive.
Is six years within 'fashionably late' territory? Better late than never, at least.
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